Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In that respect the M8, DMR and MF backs are the best cameras to Dutch the AA filter, because their users are most likely to go the extra mile for image quality. I've shot RAW as long as I can remember, going so far as to save the files for later to edit if ACR didn't yet support the camera. And editing RAW us much less of a kludge than loading a film leica! (at least for me! :p) Thein Onn Ming Sent from my iPhone On May 31, 2009, at 7:56, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Mark Rabiner > >> But in hindsight always a nice thing it may have been smarter to >> try this >> naked sensor thing out on one of Panasonic Leicas first. And see >> what hell >> all breaks loose in practice amongst the consumers. > > Wrong market. A better market for a camera without an AA filter is > one optimized for a careful RAW workflow, where image quality is a > primary goal. The PanaLeica buyer's goal is more likely to be a > good-quality picture right out of the camera, no mucking about on > the computer. > > >> ... but resolution is completely dependent on magnification. > > That's one factor. The information density in the raw file is > another. The AA filter weakens the information density so it takes > a larger file with more pixels to equal the information in the file > from the AA-less camera. > > >> Do Tree's Moir?? >> Somewhere in the rain forest of South America I bet there's one >> that does. >> Birds do it bee's do it.... > > Mammals don't, some birds do (especially quail). > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information